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Cons of Plan XVII: |
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-Had no timetable or schedule -They were "bringing a knife to a gun fight" -Disregarded Germany's coming use of reserves "French General Staff believed that the stronger the Germans made their right wing, the correspondingly weaker they would leave their center and left where the French Army planned to break through." (GOA pg.29) "Over the years, while French military philosophy had changed, French geography had not. The geographic facts of her frontiers remained where Germany had made them in 1870. Germany's territorial demands... While French history and development after the turn of the century fixed her mind upon the offensive, her geography still required a strategy of defense." (GOA pg. 34) |
